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Access symbols used in this brochure Symbols used in this brochure Pouring Partner Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Captioned Relaxed Performance Touch Tour Audio-Described 2 3 The plays The plays The Visit, or The Old The Welkin ‘Master Harold’… My Brilliant Friend Lady Comes to Call Playing from 15 Jan and the boys Parts One and Two Playing from 31 Jan Playing until 17 Dec 12 Nov – 22 Feb Death of England The Seven Streams The Antipodes The Ocean at the 31 Jan – 7 Mar of the River Ota 21 Oct – 23 Nov End of the Lane 6 – 22 Mar 3 Dec – 25 Jan Three Sisters Translations Faith, Hope and Charity Hansard 3 Dec – 19 Feb 15 Oct – 18 Dec Playing until 12 Oct Playing until 25 Nov 4 5 Tue 17 7.00 JANUARY Wed 18 1.00 The Visit 7.00 Fri 31 7.00 or The Old Lady Comes to Call Thu 19 7.00 Fri 20 7.00 based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt FEBRUARY Sat 21 1.00 adapted by Tony Kushner 7.00 Sat 1 7.00 Mon 23 7.00 Mon 3 7.00 Tue 24 1.00 Tue 4 7.00 7.00 Wed 5 7.00 Wed 25 7.00 Olivier Theatre Thu 6 7.00 Thu 26 7.00 Fri 7 7.00 Fri 27 7.00 Sat 8 7.00 Sat 28 CAP 1.00 Cast includes In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war Mon 10 7.00 7.00 Jason Barnett recession has bitten. Tue 11 7.00 Mon 30 CAP 7.00 Wed 12 7.00 Tue 31 7.00 Sam Cox Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful Thu 13 7.00 Richard Durden Fri 14 7.00 and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her APRIL Sat 15 1.00 Sara Kestelman hometown as the world’s richest woman. 7.00 Lesley Manville Wed 1 1.00 Tue 25 7.00 The locals hope her arrival signals a change 7.00 Joseph Mydell Wed 26 7.00 Thu 2 7.00 Tony Turner in their fortunes, but they soon realise that Thu 27 1.00 Photography (Lesley Manville) Fri 3 7.00 prosperity will only come at a terrible price. 7.00 Douglas Walker by David Stewart Sat 4 1.00 Fri 28 7.00 Hugo Weaving 7.00 Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge Sat 29 1.00 Nicholas Woodeson play is transported into mid-20th-century 7.00 Talks and events include Further Director America by Tony Kushner (‘Angels in performances to Jeremy Herrin America’). Jeremy Herrin (‘People, Places American Culture MARCH be announced in the 1950s and Things’, ‘This House’) directs Lesley Set Designer Fri 6 March, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Mon 2 7.00 Vicki Mortimer Manville (‘The Phantom Thread’, ‘Long Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Tue 3 7.00 Costume Designer Day’s Journey into Night’) as the ruthless Wed 4 CAP 7.00 heiress and Hugo Weaving (‘The Matrix’) Thu 5 1.00 Moritz Junge Making the Show: ‘The Visit’ 7.00 as her former love. Thu 19 Mar, 10.30am – 4pm, Lighting Designer Fri 6 7.00 Cottesloe Room, £60/£40/£15 Sat 7 1.00 Paule Constable 7.00 Composer Actor Lesley Manville Tue 10 7.00 on ‘The Visit’ Wed 11 CAP 1.00 Paul Englishby 7.00 Sound Designer Fri 20 March, 3 – 4pm, Thu 12 7.00 Paul Arditti In association with David Binder Olivier Theatre, £9/£6 Fri 13 AD 7.00 The New American Work Programme is Sat 14 AD TT 1.00 Movement Director supported by The Harold & Mimi Steinberg For more talks and events 7.00 Polly Bennett Charitable Trust, Lawton W Fitt & James I see website Mon 16 7.00 McLaren Foundation and Kathleen J Yoh 6 7 The Welkin JANUARY Wed 15 7.30 a new play by Lucy Kirkwood Thu 16 7.30 Fri 17 7.30 Sat 18 7.30 Mon 20 7.30 Tue 21 7.30 Wed 22 7.00 Thu 23 7.30 Lyttelton Theatre Fri 24 7.30 Sat 25 2.15 7.30 Cast includes Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced Nadia Albina FEBRUARY Natasha Cottriall to hang for a heinous murder. Aysha Kala When she claims to be pregnant, a Mon 3 7.30 Tue 4 7.30 Wendy Kweh jury of 12 matrons are taken from their Wed 5 7.30 Philip McGinley housework to decide whether she’s Mon 10 7.30 Cecilia Noble telling the truth, or simply trying to Tue 11 2.15 Maxine Peake escape the noose. 7.30 Photography (Maxine Peake) Wed 12 7.30 Dawn Sievewright Fri 21 7.30 Brigid Zengeni With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to by Felicity McCabe defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood Sat 22 CAP 2.15 Ria Zmitrowicz 7.30 outside, the matrons wrestle with their new Talks and events include Mon 24 CAP 7.30 Director authority, and the devil in their midst. Tue 25 2.15 James Macdonald Actor Maxine Peake 7.30 Lucy Kirkwood (‘Mosquitoes’, ‘Chimerica’) Set and Costume on ‘The Welkin’ Wed 26 CAP 7.30 returns to the National Theatre with her Thu 27 7.30 Designer Wed 12 Feb, 3 – 4pm, new play, directed by James Macdonald. Fri 28 7.30 Bunny Christie Lyttelton, £9/£6 Sat 29 2.15 Maxine Peake (‘Black Mirror’, ‘Funny Cow’) 7.30 Lighting Designer plays Lizzy, and Ria Zmitrowicz Exploring the Show: Lee Curran (‘The Doctor’), Sally. ‘The Welkin’ MARCH Sound Designer Mon 24 Feb, 10.30am – 4pm, Carolyn Downing Cottesloe Room, £60/£40/£15 Fri 27 AD 7.30 Sat 28 AD TT 2.15 Fight Directors Making Dramatic Violence 7.30 Rachel Bown- Thu 27 Feb, 5.30 – 7pm, Williams and Further Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 performances to Ruth Cooper- be announced Brown of This play is a recipient of Rc-Annie Ltd. an Edgerton Foundation New Plays Award 8 9 JANUARY Sat 7 CAP 3.00 Death of England 8.00 Fri 31 8.00 a new play by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams FEBRUARY Sat 1 8.00 Mon 3 8.00 Tue 4 8.00 Wed 5 8.00 Dorfman Theatre Thu 6 7.00 Fri 7 8.00 Cast After the death of his dad, Michael is Sat 8 3.00 Rafe Spall 8.00 powerless and angry. Mon 10 8.00 Director In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the Tue 11 8.00 Wed 12 3.00 Clint Dyer difficult truths about his father’s legacy 8.00 Set and Costume and the country that shaped him. Thu 13 8.00 Designer Fri 14 8.00 At the funeral, unannounced and Sat 15 3.00 Sadeysa unprepared, Michael decides it is time 8.00 Greenaway-Bailey Mon 17 8.00 to speak. Photography (Rafe Spall) and ULTZ by Spencer Murphy Tue 18 3.00 8.00 Lighting Designer Rafe Spall (‘Hedda Gabler’, ‘Black Mirror’) Wed 19 8.00 Jackie Shemesh performs this fearless one-person play Talks and events include Thu 20 8.00 which asks explosive and enduring Fri 21 8.00 Sound Designer Sat 22 3.00 questions about identity, race and class in Writer Roy Williams and Pete Malkin Writer/Director Clint Dyer 8.00 Britain. It is written for him by Roy Williams Mon 24 8.00 Movement Fri 14 Feb, 6.30 – 7.15pm, (‘Sucker Punch’, ‘Sing Yer Heart Out for Tue 25 CAP 8.00 Lucy Cullingford Dorfman, £9/£6 Wed 26 3.00 the Lads’) and Clint Dyer (‘The Happy 8.00 Tragedy of Being Woke’), who becomes the Designers Greenaway-Bailey Thu 27 8.00 first Black British artist to have performed, and ULTZ Fri 28 AD 8.00 Sat 29 AD TT 3.00 written and directed at the National Theatre. Fri 28 Feb, 6.30 – 7.15pm, 8.00 Dorfman, £9/£6 MARCH Actor Rafe Spall on ‘Death of England’ Mon 2 8.00 Mon 2 Mar, 3 – 4pm Tue 3 8.00 Dorfman, £9/£6 Wed 4 8.00 Thu 5 CAP 3.00 8.00 Fri 6 8.00 10 11 An Ex Machina production MARCH Fri 6 3.00 The Seven Streams Sat 7 3.00 Sun 8 3.00 of the River Ota Fri 13 3.00 Sat 14 3.00 by Ex Machina / Robert Lepage Sun 15 3.00 Fri 20 3.00 Sat 21 AD 3.00 Lyttelton Theatre Sun 22 CAP 3.00 See website for First staged at the National Theatre in 1996, full cast and Robert Lepage’s masterpiece returns production team to London for just nine performances.